Modern Software : WebAssembly Out of the Browser

Our industry never stops changing, but sometimes those changes are trivia and fluffy. Sometimes they are fundamental and enduring. This series is going to highlight some of the most important trends happening in the hardware, software, data and architecture spaces.

Most people's understanding of WebAssembly is based upon a three year old W3C standard that is exciting in its own right. The more interesting possibilities, however, will be realized when WebAssembly escapes the browser and ushers in a whole new era of ubiquitous, secure computing. We will discuss the various container environments and how they will solve some of the more persistent issues with more conventional software development technologies.

Modern software developers need to understand how just about every aspect of their industry is about to change.

We will cover:

The problem of APIs with respect to portability
And overview of Web Assembly Services Interface (WASI)
It's portability promises
It's security promises
It's nano processor vision of software composition
Various WASI runtimes include:
wasmtime
wasmer
wasm3
lucet
Advancements and future directions
Interface Types
Multi-value Return Types
Module Linkage

About Brian Sletten

Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, AI/ML, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.

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